That's the answer, but what the Zark is the question?!
A short and unskilled poem about the 42 dilemma in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The main reason of motivation was: "Cos I felt like it".
Enjoy, hoopy froods!
Two small people
once came to a decision
What's the meaning of Life?
It's needing some revision.
So in their wake
They skillfully concieved
A wondrous computer
Or that's what's believed.
Its name was Deep Thought
Purpose-built for its task
So one of the small people
brought themselves to ask:
"O Deep Thought!
I could shout! I could sing!
What is the answer
To Life, the Universe, Everything?!"
Actually, those words
weren't part of the election.
They simply asked:
The answer to THE question.
"Hmm...okay..."
The Computer replied.
"Just give me some time."
And it sat back and sighed.
Many a year it thought
But still people waited
Only for an answer
That everybody hated.
"I've thought about it now,
I've been on my hike.
But be warned it's something
you probably won't like."
The people were impatient
They whooped and they cheered
This moment was the one
that Deep Thought greatly feared.
"Oh, alright then,
what else can I do?
The Answer to Life
is the number forty-two."
This dampened their spirits
so the people refrained.
But there was one more answer
that was needed to be gained.
"Fine then"
The other small person said.
"What is the question?
Feed my big head."
"Err, I'll have to think about that one."
Deep Thought soon confessed.
And so the people gave up,
and left it to rest.
However, there were others
that wanted this out.
Four different people
And an android worth 'nout.
Their names were Arthur Dent
an Earthman with dread
And Zaphod Beeblebrox
a man with two heads.
Trisha McMillan
Or 'Trillian' I think.
And Ford Prefect
Who likes girls and loves drink.
Then of course
Marvin's to be said
He's a paranoid android
With a desire to be dead.
There were also two mice
who saw something here
and asked to buy Arthur's brain.
He was told not to fear.
Seeing as he was there
during the Earth's final phase,
the question might be written
in his precious brain-waves.
He denied, of course
But the mice did regret.
So they got out quick
And off Magrathea they set.
Life brought them to Milliways
By a time-travel slip
But soon they found death
On a black stuntship.
And then it was announced
Marvin could gain
What the answer was
By reading Arthur's brain.
Zark, now it was too late
The teleport was used
Marvin sacrificed himself.
He didn't mind being abused.
So to this date
we still cannot tell
the question to this answer.
Oh what the hell!
